Former Paladino aide furious over bomb-threat caller’s sentence

Michael Caputo, the outspoken campaign manager who was attached to 2010 GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino in good times andbad, is furious over the light sentence handed down to Miles Fisher, who according to prosecutors threatened to bomb Paladino’s Buffalo HQ in a phone call. He was quickly apprehended.

Caputo also expresses anger at the Buffalo News’ coverage of the trial. (Paladino’s battles with the BN are like the War of the Roses, but with Buffalo accents.) Here’s Caputo’s recently zapped email commentary:

On April 13, 2011, a serial criminal telephoned the Paladino campaign office and told the receptionist he was from a black militant group and threatened to bomb the Ellicott Square Building. I know; I was there.

On September 13, 2011, he walked away with his wrists slapped by a Buffalo judge.

The Buffalo News article covering his milquetoast sentence was headlined “Man who made harassing call to Paladino campaign avoids jail time.” Fisher didn’t “harass” us. He threatened to kill us and hundreds of other people in the Ellicott Square Building. He promised to explode a bomb and murder all of us, to leave husbands and wives without wives and husbands. To leave hundreds of children without a mother or a father. To crumble a Buffalo landmark to the ground and bring our city to its knees.

And Fisher was found GUILTY of doing exactly that, no matter what hogwash he sold the judge at his sentencing.

The Buffalo News story doesn’t report that Fisher called the murderous threat in from his mother’s house in Brooklyn, where the 63 year old man lives. The call was traced within minutes to his elderly mother, who answered the door when police came knocking. So he’s no brain surgeon.

The News also fails to note that Fisher has been arrested DOZENS of times, sometimes for violent offenses, and he’s served jail time. So he’s not much of a minister, either.

“Harassing call” – really? Shame on the Buffalo News for their headline and coverage and shame on the judge who let this violent felon walk away from yet another one of his crimes. Feel safe, Buffalo? Because we have one heckuva legal system.